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Zoom is available to anyone with a valid Northwestern NetID, and its use is intended for the purpose of conducting University-related activities. To get an account and begin using it immediately, visit the Zoom login page, sign in with your NetID and password, and authenticate using Duo MFA. An account is provisioned automatically upon first login.
NetID services take information from the HR or student system and create unified Northwestern credentials (NetIDs) that are then connected with information about each individual. NetIDs are then used as the primary way for people to interact with IT services. Other types of NetIDs can be created as well for specific people, organizations, or IT system purposes.
Bookings with me in Outlook is a web-based personal scheduling page that integrates with the free/busy information from your Outlook calendar.
NUworkspace offers users a virtual Windows desktop service that provides access to a suite of many software applications to faculty, students, and staff, including access to software packages that may not be readily available on their desktop/laptop computers.
Northwestern has agreements with Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft Azure, to provide discounted cloud hosting options for Northwestern faculty and staff.
CAESAR is Northwestern’s system of record for student data. Students, faculty, advisers, parents, guardians, and staff use CAESAR to manage classes and grades, pay bills, view financial aid, process admissions, and maintain demographic data.
Microsoft Visio is a diagramming tool included in the suite of Microsoft 365 applications and add-ins. It enables users to create a wide range of visuals, from straightforward flowcharts to intricate network diagrams.
Blackthorn Events is a Salesforce-native app that Northwestern has configured to work within our implementation of Kindsight’s ascend product. This tool helps manage event registration and reporting by collecting event RSVPs through an online form integrated directly into our CRM. Functionality supports both in-person and online events that require various degrees of complexity.
NUFinancials is the centerpiece of the University’s financial management systems. It supports the accounting and budgeting functions that feed the University’s general ledger, and works with related reporting, facilities management, purchasing, sponsored research, financial forecasting, and annual budgeting systems.
The Northwestern Public Virtual Private Network (VPN) allows users with Northwestern NetIDs to access University network resources as if they were directly connected to the Northwestern network.Virtual Private Network (VPN) establishes a "secure tunnel" for your computer on the Northwestern network. It provides strong encryption, enables authenticated access to the Northwestern network from external and untrusted environments, and proxies your network traffic so it appears to originate from within the Northwestern network.
The Graduate Student Progress (GSP) allows programs to track graduate student progress and view many elements of graduate student activity in one place.
The Administrative Systems Enterprise Architecture Management Tool is a central repository to capture the data and metadata about artifacts for AS applications.
Northwestern provides three wireless networks to access the Internet. Each network is unique to University affiliation and device type.
The Business Intelligence (BI) System (also known as Cognos), provides Northwestern with accessible and comprehensive reporting and analytics solutions for University schools and business units.
StudyTracker is Northwestern University’s centralized application for managing human research studies. It supports tracking IRB protocols, study status, participant enrollment, and compliance activities, helping research teams and administrators streamline oversight and reporting.
This category is for Phone requests and related tasks.
Northwestern University is an institutional member of Dryad, a non-profit, community-governed data repository. Any Northwestern researcher can publicly share their research data in Dryad at no cost. Sharing data in Dryad complies with funder and publisher data-sharing polices.
LabArchives electronic research notebook platform. LabArchives is a cloud-based service designed as an analog to a paper notebook.
Library HR staff (ODD) uses OnBase to ingest, store and retrieve all employee records.
CatConnect is Northwestern's web-based system of record for alumni and donor information. Its modules support school and central Alumni Relations and Development staff in prospect management, gift development, committee and volunteer management, alumni and donor relations, and alumni event tracking.
Northwestern University's agreement with Microsoft offers Microsoft Office software, core client access licenses, and operating system upgrades for University-owned computers
Delve is a tool within the Microsoft 365 applications and add-ins that helps users stay aware of new or changing information most important to them by analyzing activity within OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online, Yammer, and OneNote.